The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-25

reason for their being angry other than
what have stated. Dowsett was not al
fected by the liquor. He was not SO quiet
then as he is now. took the policeman's
number because / considered the affair an
outrage 1t looked to me as If the police
men went there and waited for US to make
trouble.
At u O'Clock the Court took a recess to
l 80 o'clock.
Redirect examination of Mr.. Muller
continued-S adjournment L have re-
| membered the names of two other songs
that were sung that night.
The Marshal said he did not care about
the names.
There was no fight took place that night,
only talk. / do not know who fell with the
gate. 1 saw the policeman rush up to the
gate. Did not see any fight in my yard. L
think there was about 20 policemen there.
| My eyesight is good. 1 do not know what
| seeing double means. My usual houS for
going to bed is II o'clock l was up one
hour later that night. l do not think the
fact of my being up an hour later inter
f,red with my eyesight. There were about
90 policemen there. They wore blue coats
and white caps. / do not know who were
standing against the gate. | heard a po-
| liceman's whistle blown that night, [ sup
| pose to call other police. There was a gen
eral uprOar there, and | suppose they
wanted more police. l cannot swear who
| blew the whistle, but think Robinson did.
| We all said afterwards it was good thing
| Dowsett did not lose his temper. The 20
policemen came there two or three minutes
! tier the whistle was blown. ! have never
seen Dowsett show signs of quick temper.
! When I was younger l might have had
! fights, but have never had anything to do
| with police. L have known fight to start
/ from no cause. l have seen men try to
! pick quarrel and get it. Have seen sober
men get into quarrels. | have tried to
| keep out of the way of drunkards.
Kamaka, sworn, stated am a police
man No. 5. Belong to regular police.
rccoiiect last Saturday night. l saw the
three defendants that night, also Creigh-
,tnn and Muller. [ saw them near the
| junction of Hotel and Richard streets,
close to Mrs. Coney's premises. 1 was at
f OF of Likelike street, and walked over to
| Richard street 1 found two policemen
there and asked them what they were
| doing there. They said that was their
beat Their names are Kaua and Halaupo.
While / was there two men on horseback
| pissed us and turned up Richard street.
did not see who they were. They rode up
IT, Hotel street When they reached there
l heard a loud noise, and SO went up the
street. My beat extends to there. 1t was
! loud talking l heard. When 1 got to the
! Palace gate / was satisfied it was fgh
! and put on full speed. | ran up there
much out of wind, and there seemed to be
lot of white men. The first thing. Null
Ter got hold of me and said, 'Who are
your" l said, me police What's the
matter with the noise?" Muller paid no
attention, and pushed me away. / tried
| II get into the crowd, but Muller pulled
at me and finally my coat gave way and
was among them. When Muller asked
me where my number was, / said No. s.
This was while he had hold of me. l saw
Dias there; he was the only policeman
there. | asked him what was the matter,
and he said these white men had stopped
and detained him, and wanted 10 fight
lllas was surrounded by white men; they
lowered above him. l noticed DOwsett
| and Whitney in front of Dias, and there
were many others there. Robinson came
up on horseback, and turning round then
| saw Whitney strike Dias on the head
somewhere. Others pulled Dias and got
him on the ground and trod ON him I
then blew my whistle. The lawyer (Creigh-
tom had Dits' horse, and Muller had Rob
inson's. Creighton had hold of the horse
i :. III.
Muller kicked Robinson's horse in the
belly and sent it on the run after the other
horse. 1t hurt my feelings to see such
goings on, and | kept blowing my whistle.
/ looked round and saw that the crowd
were pulling Dias into the yard | got
hold of his legs and finally got him ont
After got Das out Whitney and Dowsett,
who were inside the gate, invited HIM to
go in again On looking round l saw an
other crowd had Robinson on his back. l
helped him up, and directly afterwards |
rHtive named Lokano looking on. I
told him to stop there, as l wanted him for
witness. l kept blowing my whistle and
saw three policemen coming up Richard
street. Up to that time the three came
there had only been Dias Robinson and
myself at the place. | saw no twenty no.
licemen. l know all the police on the
force. Directly after | saw the three DO
lice coming up Richard street, Whitney
and others had got Dias down on the side
walk / went to his assistance, when
someone got hold of me and threw me
down, but | managed to get clear. The
three pOlicemen's names are Noah. Kaua |
and Samuelo. Noah caught the horses
and gave them in charge of Lokano. l !
asked Dids to point out the man who
started the row. L made up my mind to
arrest Creighton and Muller for stamped
ing the horses and also for taking part in
the disturbance. If 1 had not been there
to call assistance those two policemen
would have been killed There was about
fifty people there and two hacks full of
people. l saw the Captain of the watch
come with another policeman, and then
the crowd had diminished l looked
round for some one to arrest, but they had
all got into the yard. 1 arrested Creighton
and passed him over to Samuelo to hold |